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Olivensa megacephala
Authors/Creators
- 1. Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana, Iquitos, Loreto, Peru
Description
Olivensa megacephala (Bates, 1866)
(Fig. 86)
Amphionycha megacephala Bates, 1866: 428.
Remarks. This species was described based on a single specimen from Brazil (Amazonas). Currently, it is known from Ecuador, Bolivia, French Guiana, and Brazil (Amazonas) (Monné 2024b; Tavakilian & Chevillotte 2024).
Material examined. PERU (new country record), Loreto: Centro Fuerte, Rio Momón, 1 female, 15.X.2010, J.J. Ramírez leg. (JJRH).
Notes
Published as part of Santos-Silva, Antonio & Hernandez, Juan José Ramírez, 2025, Cerambycidae and Disteniidae (Coleoptera) from the Peruvian region of Loreto: new species, new records, and notes, pp. 257-298 in Zootaxa 5689 (2) on page 291, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5689.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/17319437
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- JJRH
- Event date
- 2010-10-15
- Verbatim event date
- 2010-10-15
- Scientific name authorship
- Bates
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Cerambycidae
- Genus
- Olivensa
- Species
- megacephala
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Olivensa megacephala (Bates, 1866) sec. Santos-Silva & Hernandez, 2025
References
- Bates, H. W. (1866) Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley. Coleoptera: Longicornes. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 3, 17, 425-435. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222936608679571
- Monne, M. A. (2024 b) Catalogue of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region. Part II. Subfamily Lamiinae. Available from: https://cerambycids.com/catalog/ (accessed 29 July 2025)
- Tavakilian, G. L. & Chevillotte, H. (2024) Titan: base de donnees internationales sur les Cerambycidae ou Longicornes. Available from: http://titan.gbif.fr/ (accessed 15 September 2024)